Sunday, August 02, 2015, 5:36 p.m.

Vigil set to honor LR teen killed in shooting

A vigil is planned at a Little Rock high school to honor a 15-year-old girl fatally shot after a group of teens vandalized a car.

The vigil for Adrian Broadway is set for 4 p.m. Friday at McClellan High School, where she was a freshman. Police say 48-year-old Willie Noble opened fire on a group of teenagers that he believed vandalized his car. Broadway was struck by gunfire and died at a Little Rock hospital.

Police say Noble told investigators that he only wanted to scare the teens, not harm anyone. He's being held in the Pulaski County jail on suspicion of first-degree murder.

McClellan principal Henry Anderson says Broadway was a "bright, kind-hearted and precocious young woman with immense potential." Her funeral is set for Saturday in Little Rock.

As tragic as this story is, it just goes to show that parents have to be more responsible for their children nowadays. Our society is so quick to want children to be grown that they let them do whatever. What normal parent would let their 15 year old out at 1:30 in the morning? Nothing good is happening in the streets after midnight, so why be riding around?

I must say that I am a good parent. One night, while I was sleep and after I check on my kids and locked up my house, my 16 year old sneaked out of the house. I did catch him on his way back in! I know I raised him better and I was worried. I called his girlfriend's mother. She was gone also, so we knew they were together. So quick to blame the parent without knowing the facts? I don't know the fact about why this girl was out, but I will pray for the family and the kids who witnessed their friend's death. I will also pray for the man who took this girl's life. Let's pray for the people who are judging that they do not experience this same or similar loss. It could happen to any of us. I judged once and it happened to me.